Edo

Saitoku-ji's main hall, built in 1713 north of Lake Biwa, keeps a thatched roof and a gable-end entrance at 16.5 metres wide. Akao was an Azai retainer seat.

Shomyoji's main hall in Hino, Shiga, said to be a Kyoto palace building moved here in 1645, keeps palace shutters under a bark roof; Important Cultural Property.

Guest and study halls of the early Edo period at Daitsuji in Nagahama, Shiga, with paintings attributed to Kano and Okyo, facing gardens that borrow Mount Ibuki.

Great reception hall of the early Edo period at Daitsuji in Nagahama, Shiga, nearly 22 metres square under a hipped roof and said to come from Fushimi Castle.

Main hall of 1657 at Daitsuji, the Nagahama Gobo branch temple of Higashi Honganji in Shiga, a vast hip-and-gable hall said to come from Fushimi Castle.

The main hall of Chiyo Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, built in 1638 in the early Edo period, is a three-bay nagare-style shrine hall roofed in cypress bark.

The main hall of Hyakusaiji, a Koto Sanzan temple in Higashiomi, Shiga, rebuilt in 1650 after the temple was burned, gives a medieval form early modern clarity.

An Edo-period branch shrine of Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, built 1634. Worship hall, chamber and sanctuary link into an H-shaped plan under black lacquer and colour.

The Former Miyaji Family Residence, a small Edo-period thatched farmhouse moved from Kunitomo in Nagahama to Azuchi, Shiga, keeps a well-preserved interior.

Myōōin, a Tendai retreat founded in 859 north of Ōtsu, had four halls and its terraced precinct designated Important Cultural Properties in 1993. Free entry.

A National Historic Site since 2020, the Nagahara and Iba Goten in Shiga are remains of palaces used exclusively by the Tokugawa shoguns on the road to Kyoto.

A 1967 outbuilding at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with weatherboard and sheet-iron walls, forming the estate's street front beside its thatched gate.

Anyoin Temple Jizo Hall, a pyramid-roofed hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu dated to the late Edo period by weathering, has an ornate carved transom in front.

Anyoin Temple Shoten Hall, the oldest hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, joins an earthen-walled late-Edo sanctuary under a pyramid roof to a worship room.

Enjuin Temple Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga: a small Jodo Buddhist hall of 1711, 3 bays by 4, built with stout timbers and carved transoms between its sanctuaries.

Oku-Ibuki Hometown Folklore Museum in Maibara, Shiga: a thatched late Edo farmhouse that escaped the fire of 1836, where Noh is said to have been staged.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Kannon Hall, built in 1766, is the main hall of Mangetsu-ji in Otsu, a small hip-and-gable hall with a diagonal tile floor beside Lake Biwa.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Guest Hall, built in 1754 by local carpenter Kichibei, faces Lake Biwa in Otsu and keeps a four-room plan with rooms looking onto the lake.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Main Gate, built in 1812 in Otsu, is a white-skirted two-storey gate whose doorless opening frames the Ukimido hall out on Lake Biwa.

Late Edo earthen storehouse beside the Nunoso cloth shop on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with a separately framed roof and carved strut ends. Registered in 2013.